Word: peddler
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Dealers offered them marijuana, heroin and crack; one peddler, mistaking a Soviet cigarette for something more potent, offered to buy up all the visitor could deliver. Astonished that much of the illegal enterprise was conducted while policemen stood nearby, Dr. Andrei Vrublevsky said selling drugs on the street "would be impossible in our country. If a dealer did do that, he would be taken in to the police, with the help of citizens...
Witold, a 26-year-old who lives in Warsaw, began taking kompot six years ago without knowing it was addictive. Having lost his job, he spends most of his time these days using, buying or mixing the stuff, often filling his syringe with a hit from a street peddler (cost: about 35 cents). "Life in Poland these days for young people is so awful," says Witold. "I don't want to be an ordinary man with an ordinary life...
...This sort of thing raises the ire of many environmentalists. The January issue of Mother Jones scolds Rockwell for making Adams into an "arms peddler." Carl Pope, political director of the Sierra Club, calls Rockwell's use of the Adams photographs the "ultimate in cynicism." But Rockwell paid a substantial fee to the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust for permission to use the photos. Contends Trustee John Schaefer: "Adams was a patriot. He believed in a strong defense...
...time fixers such as Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran and Clark Clifford were not merely practiced lawyers but had some genuine legislative expertise to offer. Lately, however, Washington has seen the rise of a new breed of influence peddler, whose real value is measured by his friends in high places --particularly in the White House. Clifford prospered no matter who was in office; after the Reagans go home to California, it is hard to believe that Deaver or Gray will remain quite such hot commodities...
...utilizes a gift for gab, a talent for making "the old feel young and the poor feel rich," as one friend puts it. Bunting favors disguises, what he calls "hidebehinds," becoming everything from a fish peddler to a buck dancer in order to confuse or disarm his prey. When these tricks fail, he calls upon oratorical ammunition. Confronted with some violators intent on ambushing him, he announces: "It is my duty to inform you that I am slick with a gun. I don't want to meet you in the Great Beyond and have you telling me that I didn...